Visual Liturgy Blog

On July 1st The Archbishop’s Council signed an agreement with Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd to publish liturgy and other resources for the Church of England. Visual Liturgy Live is one of the titles that will now be published by Hymns Ancient and Modern.

Work on Visual Liturgy Live is continuing and we have just posted an update to the software which you should receive automatically through online update. We also have several content modules currently being tested, including Marriage with Holy Baptism, Common Worship Festivals, and Midi tunes for hundreds of popular hymns.

Some of these updates will only be available to subscribers. However the software update is available to all users, even if your subscription is expired.

Your comments and questions are welcome; please use the online forum at http://www.visualliturgylive.net.

We have just published a new content module for Visual Liturgy Live. You can download it by using Online Update, and if you’re not sure how to do that, I’ve posted a reminder for you in our VL Live support forums, which also tell you more about the module. 

This is our second news item of the day, so don’t forget to read the previous item about subscriptions if you haven’t already done so.

Earlier this week, we extended a number of  VL Live Year-1 subscriptions to December 13th 2008. If your subscription to VL Live had expired before today, or was due to expire between today and December 13th, it will have been extended to December 13th.

A significant update of content for VL Live is now available for you to download, and because of the way we’ve extended those subscriptions, it is available for every VL user to download free-of-charge, as part of the price you paid for your Year 1 subscription.

Further information about managing your VL Live subscription is available in the Latest News section of the VL Live forums.

Some of you have noticed that your VL Live subscriptions have expired and that there is currently no option to renew them on the VL Live website. This is because we have not yet finished our publishing programme for Year 1, and we do not intend to ask you to pay for Year 2 until we have done that. Continue reading →

…on Monday morning 3rd November.

CHP is about to begin a release programme of several Visual Liturgy Live update modules, which will enhance your copy of Visual Liturgy Live with new content, and which will also include some corrections to existing content.

Continue reading →

CHP has now announced its outline publishing programme for VL Live for 2008 and 2009, with the following key features:

• Year 1 subscriptions will all run until at least All Saints’ Day (Saturday 1st November) 2008.
• All VL Live users who bought and installed their copies of VL Live before 1st November 2007 will therefore have their subscriptions extended free-of-charge until 1st November 2008
• All VL Live users who bought and installed their copies of VL Live after 1st November will have their Year 1 subscriptions until 1 year after the date they registered their software.
• The publishing programme for Common Worship: Times and Seasons will be completed during Year 1, before 1st November 2008.

The Year 1 publishing programme will also include

• Some improvements and additions to Daily Prayer content and smart templates
• Some new seasonal and occasional templates

The future publishing programme, beginning with Year 2in November 2008, will include

• Further improvements and additions to Daily Prayer content and smart templates
• Common Worship: Festivals
• The Book of Common Prayer
• Common Worship: Ordination Services
• Proclaiming the Passion
• Continuing improvements to service templates
• Continuing provision of content to support daily prayer
• New service templates

Visual Liturgy Live subscriptions will be held at £52.00 per annum for year 2 and that price will be held until 2009.

Comments are not allowed here; but please feel free to discuss on the Visual Liturgy forum.